Santos Tseng, Huai-Te Hsieh and Feng-Tzu Liang offer advice for dispensing to patients of Far Eastern ethnicity. Module C8289, one general CET point, suitable for optometrists and DOs
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Taiwanese dispensing optometrists have the daily task of fitting spectacle frames to a highly myopic patient base. This produces challenges such as minimising lens edge thicknesses, reducing heavy lens weights, and modifying sunglasses to permit optical correction. Other challenges include trying to fit plastic frames to the flat Oriental nose, as well as help patients select frames when their myopia prevents them from seeing themselves clearly in the mirror.
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